I responded on the neglected number 11.: “”Correlation does not imply causation”: (1) difficult child may get physical punishment more; (2) physical punishment negatively correlates with parental education or socioeconomic status; (3) physical punishment strongly correlates with parental violentness (indeed, physical punishment itself is a paradigmatic example of parental violentness). However, randomized controlled trial to find harmfulness of physical punishment of children will be very unethical, and therefore, such research is not ethically possible. However, it seems prima facie true that physical punishment, especially on high frequency (3-18 times/week) will be profoundly harmful.”
So basically your argument for this being causal rather than merely correlational is just “it is prima facie plausible” ?
So basically your argument for this being causal rather than merely correlational is just “it is prima facie plausible” ?